Winding Creek El Sch

Winding Creek El Sch, a sizable K-5 school in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, part of Cumberland Valley SD, caters to 1,055 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 138% larger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Winding Creek El Sch is one of 11 schools operated by Cumberland Valley SD, a district that educates 10,374 students overall.

Demographically, Winding Creek El Sch reports that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 34% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Cumberland County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Winding Creek El Sch lists 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 32% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Cumberland County's rate of about 41%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Winding Creek El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.8%, the actual is 64.4%, a residual of +0.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Cumberland County indicate the typical household earns roughly $87,494 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Cumberland County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,044 students), Winding Creek El Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Mountain View MS, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Winding Creek El Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Winding Creek El Sch at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 71.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

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